Badugi Rules

 

The goal of this game is to create the best Badugi hand, which is comprised of a hand holding each of the four different suits (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades) and four unique card ranks. Aces are played as low, kings as high. 432A of four different suits, the wheel, is the best possible hand.

Traditional poker hand rankings are discarded entirely. The best hands are Badugis (hands with four different suits and four unique cards – no pairs), followed by 3-card hands (a hand with three different suits, or four different suits but a paired number, such as 663A), 2-card hands, and lastly the uncommon and completely useless 1-card hands (four cards of the same suit or four of a kind – KKKK is the worst hand possible in Badugi).

Paired cards are essentially treated as dead. A♠2♥2♣7♦, for example, is called a three-card 72A. If two of a specific suit are found, such as 3♠5♥7♥J♣, the higher card is ignored. This hand would be called a three-card J53. Hands are evaluated from the highest card going down.

For this reason, you could have a Badugi such as A♥2♣3♦K♠, however it would lose to a hand such as 8♥9♠T♦Q♣, because the second hand’s highest card, a queen, is lower than the first hand’s highest card, a king. A simple way to read it would be to read the hand as a four digit number. A 6432 Badugi loses to a 642A Badugi because 6421 is a lower number than 6432.

Initial Play (“Pre-Flop”)

Each player receives four cards. The player to the left of the dealer may call the big blind, raise, or fold. The next player to the left may then act. Action continues clockwise like in Hold’em. Please read our Hold’em article for details on betting structure. Badugi plays the same way in this regard.바둑이사이트넷

Badugi Draws

After initial betting finishes, the dealer burns a card. All players are allowed to discard up to four of their cards, or “stay pat” by not drawing any cards, in order starting from the left of the dealer button, receiving an equal number of cards in return. Once this concludes, another round of betting begins.

After this round of betting concludes, a second draw occurs. The dealer burns a second card next to the first one to denote the second round of draws. Once this concludes, another round of betting begins.

Finally, a third card is burned and a third round of drawing and betting occurs. All hands are then revealed. The lowest Badugi hand wins the pot.


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